1576 in poetry
# 1576 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Events

* Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.

## Works published

### France

* Rémy Belleau:
   * Les Amours et nouveaux échanges despierres précieuses, also known as Pierres précieuses poems on the image and arcane powers of precious stone
   * Eclogues sacrées
* Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works

### Great Britain

* The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology
* Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall Historie
* George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire
* George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse

### Other

* Baptista Mantuanus, Opera Omnia ("Complete Works"), Italian poet writing in Latin, Antwerp
* Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas, Indian poet writing in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi
* Jan van der Noot - Das Buch Extasis, Dutch poet writing in German, Cologne

## Births

* October 7 (baptism) – John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist
* Also
   * Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
   * Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet
   * John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary

## Deaths

* January 19 – Hans Sachs (born 1494), German Meistersinger
* Girolamo Muzio (born 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet
* Mavro Vetranović (born 1482), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
* Lu Zhi (born 1496), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet
